Dinner At Raina's!

Saturday night, Albert, Lindie and I had a hot date with Ji Young, Raina, and pork :-)

Earlier that day Albert and I went to Ji Youngs salon to get his hair cut.  I have been there twice, but I got ridiculously lost.  It should have taken us maybe 20 minutes to walk there, but it took us all of an hour and I found it only by a complete accident.  I'm so glad that we didn't have an appointment.  We were there until about 4, and Raina came by to talk to us about dinner that night, invited us to be there at six, so we ran out to get ready, get Lindie, and get back. 

I was really excited to go, I thought it was the sweetest thing for her to invite us over.  Raina is really awesome, and really takes care of us.  And Ji Young was also there, so it was definitely a party :-)  We got there, and Raina started working.  I was just stirring the soup, but Lindie still thought it was worth taking a photo of:

"On my gosh, Jean's actually 'cooking!'"

Ha ha

Crazy Mom.  :-)

Albert and Lindie chillin'

Raina's husband grilling the pork!

This is how it started.  There's a salad, some delicious grilled peppers, onions, and mushrooms, then a salad of raw cucumber and onion with a really nice, little bit spicy sauce, I'm not sure what's in the blue dish, I'm ashamed to say I didn't try it, and then this really awesome corn and cheese dish.  Awesome.

Then it grew with pork and rice and kimchi/ham soup. 

Ji Young and Raina.  Cheese!

So.  Much.  Food.  :-)  But it was incredible!

Cheers :-)

After more pork and veggies than we each thought we could possibly hold, they fed us even more.  :-)

They put on some music and Raina and her youngest daughter put on a show.  :-)

Raina, showing us how it's done:

 Then her mom showed us her moves :-)

Found out that night that not only is Raina awesome, she also used to be a DJ, a bona fide record-scratching DJ.  :-)  And her husband was a bass player.  How cool is that?

Lindie Grace and Crazy Mom :-)

She was adorable :-)

 After eating, eating, eating, laughing and singing, we decided that we needed to go to a singing room together.

Ji Young blowin' it up!  :-)

Raina taught us that night which singing rooms to go to.  Apparently the ones that say "Singing Room Town" are more expensive because you can get a lot more there, including an "escort."  Thank you, Raina!  You saved us from some trouble for sure!

Lindie rockin out on lead guitar.

Rock on.

They are so much fun :-)

See?

I do NOT understand why we don't have these at home!!!  They are so far beyond a blast I can't even begin to express it!

Which ballad was this??  Ji Young and Raina sang a lot of English songs, which we all appreciated as being quite a feat, especially when Lindie and I tried to struggle along with a Korean song.  Luckily a lot of the hit songs right now have quite a bit of English in them, so those are always fun.

We were absolutely pwning that singing room.  We got so many 100's it wasn't even funny!  :-)

We were there for maybe 2 hours, and it was a lot of fun.  We were all hoarse by the time we walked out.  This singing room was underground and when we were trying to leave there was this big fight on the stairs!  Like, people getting shoved down the stairs, kind of fight.  Pretty intense, so of course we had to figure out what was going on (and Lindie and I just happened to know Korean for "FIGHT!" so, we probably weren't helping. . .)  :-)  The owner came up to us eventually and ushered us out the secret back entrance.  Soooooo celebrity!  And you know, as soon as we got out there were MORE fights!  Drama city out there!  And you know what those crazy girls tried to do??  Feed us again!!!  But, it was about time to get home.

Great night.  Great food, great sining, and really great times :-)

Love them :-)